Transnational Queer Literature of the (Other) Americas (Essay‪)‬

This article contributes to the current transnational turn in American literary scholarship by examining the cross-cultural connections between several North and South American writers, beginning with Walt Whitman. The specific focus of this survey is on the notion of a queer literary network of allusion and intertextuality and, thus, begins with a critical assessment of existing models of literary influence. After sketching out the limitations of current models of textual interaction, the author examines the links between the work of Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, Hart Crane, Xavier Villaurrutia, and Adrienne Rich. Queer Intertextuality